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| crashwg:
I feel like an idiot for asking this since I've wired an entire house before but this is a bit different so I just want to make sure. The labels I have put on the attached picture are the ones that appear on the back of the recepticle. Obviously the symbol is ground but which (L or N) is black and which is white? L is the switched one, and I'm fairly confident is black but I just want to double check. |
| Trimoor:
The switched wire is always hot (black). If you want to check for yourself, use a continuity meter on a computer power cable. |
| Minwah:
L = Live N = Neutral AFAIK Neutral is always black or blue. Live is usually red or brown. Earth/ground is always green or green with yellow stripes. I'm guessing the live wire is white (rather than red) as it is switched. What is this connector on/for though? Edit: what I mean is where have you got the 'black' and 'white' from?? |
| Trimoor:
Standard house wiring uses black for hot/live, white for neutral, green of bare for ground. Don't go by the colors unless you are absolutely certain. If this is in an old cabinet, the operator might not have had any idea what he was doing. Use a multimeter. Measure the voltage across 'L' and ground. If it reads about 120volts, then 'L' is hot. If it reads about zero, then 'L' is neutral. The switched wire is certainly the hot/live wire. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on January 21, 2005, 09:36:07 am ---Standard house wiring uses black for hot/live, white for neutral, green of bare for ground. --- End quote --- Don't let me do any wiring in the US then!! Standard colours in the UK are as I posted... Wierd. Black for live???!! :o |
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